The knocker

Chapter four: the stocked table

When sammy see the large room he notices a long wooden table with a bunch of seats and one at the end. "thats the mistress chair no ones allowed to sit in it" said the mysterious little girl whispering in sammys ear. "why not?" says sammy curious as a little mouse. "shes the head master, now come sit next to me" she says yanking on his arm. Sammy looks around to see everyone sitting down and goes to his seat pulling out the wooden chair. As sammy sits he hears a old creaky voice of a old man with a hunch "Children tonights menu will be a chiken dinner" the chef says looking at the mistress. Sammy notces the chefs hands, small but long and boney fingers as if hes been knocking on doors his whole life; a hand full of people comes out around the old man with different kinds of food. sammy has never seen so much in his life, thinking to his self "if theres so much varity of food then why does the kids look pale as if the lifes been drained out of them?". everyone stars to grab what they want and starts chowing down. sammy grabs a peice of chicken and some mashed carrots, reaching for a roll sammy hears a strange noise (knock knock). "whats that?" sammy says unsurely "whats what" the little girl says. Sammy doesnt answer her back not thinking anything of it reaching for the roll he had his eyes on. The sound grows louder (knock knock) sammy looks up to see the boy with freckles knocking on the table looking and noticing that tommy has his ears coverd messing with tommy. "BRUICE.. Stop it!" the mistress says in her ear aching voice echoing out through the orphange. "s-s-sorry miss mistress" bruice says nervously and then stays quiet. "as you already ruined my quiet dinner and every one around, you can help sammy with his chore while also doing yours" miss mistress says sternly. You can tell bruice was mad, he did not eat as much for the rest of the dinner. At the end of the dinner everyone was quite full and finsihed even the mistress looks stuffed but looking her plate it looks like it hasnt been touched the mistress grab and she pats her lips with a napkin. "off to bed children you have a long morning" mistress says as she seems calm. Sammy stands up with the rest of the children walking out the big dinning hall he turns back and notices that the old chef raises his boney finger to his lips telling him to be quite with a smile on his face that makes his mouth look big as if his mouth goes from his eye to the other leaving a long chill down his spine. sammy starts walking up the stairs into the long wooden hallway looking at bruice run past him. Sammy turn around and sees the lights behind him; he starts to sprint off hearing what sounds like a growl in the darkness slamming open the beedroom door then closing it quickly.